Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating that they have been penalized by Hacker News moderators. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News applies penalties. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities (axios.com)

×18.05 61 | 276 points by Liwink 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns (philarchive.org)

×3.96 86 | 37 points by ICBTheory 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague (nytimes.com)

×8.78 51 | 508 points by blinding-streak 3 days ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coal is dirtier than you think (ember-energy.org)

×4.49 65 | 8 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stacklane – GitHub App for Stacked PR Clarity (stacklane.dev)

×2.90 67 | 6 points by nbrempel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robotaxi launch begins in Austin today (twitter.com/elonmusk)

×3.05 53 | 6 points by leoww 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites (bbc.co.uk)

×12.15 28 #35 | 1120 points by mattcollins 2 days ago | 3353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds (axios.com)

×3.35 41 | 6 points by prng2021 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Dubai almost became a part of India (bbc.com)

×2.10 48 #81 | 6 points by ranit 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible (medium.com)

×6.90 25 | 282 points by sksjvsla 3 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion

×1.32 26 #72 | 64 points by WolfOliver 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (kleinbottle.com)

×2.86 59 | 4 points by sebg 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran Hacks Tirana Municipality in Retaliation over MEK (tiranatimes.com)

×2.52 46 | 4 points by campuscodi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robotaxi (tesla.com)

×2.15 30 | 4 points by lopkeny12ko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PostmarketOS v25.06: The One with Systemd (postmarketos.org)

×1.97 44 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discover C++26's compile-time reflection (lemire.me)

×2.54 27 #33 | 41 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CDP Retirement in Firefox (fxdx.dev)

×1.12 34 | 3 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Walmart Tries to Shed a Stodgy Vibe to Battle Digital-Native Rivals (nytimes.com)

×2.11 52 | 3 points by whack 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Remotely Good – AI-powered job platform for remote, mission-driven work (lovable.app)

×1.63 23 | 4 points by Theresa_i_a 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One million and counting: Russian casualties hit milestone in Ukraine war (theguardian.com)

×7.84 59 #61 | 21 points by rawgabbit 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
San Francisco before the Tech industry (laphamsquarterly.org)

×2.37 60 | 3 points by keiferski 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI (apple.com)

×2.77 19 #22 | 87 points by rafram 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing 23 Games in 24 Days (in Rust) (ostwilkens.se)

×1.86 19 #48 | 9 points by ostwilkens 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Is Wrong with Statement Coverage (1999) (bullseye.com)

×1.40 19 | 3 points by marcodiego 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (stackoverflow.com)

×2.53 66 | 3 points by nan60 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Luna Rail – treating night trains as a spatial optimization problem (luna-rail.com)

×1.51 11 #80 | 103 points by ant6n 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generating Musical Scales (petecorey.com)

×1.48 18 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Use Robotaxi (tesla.com)

×1.61 17 | 3 points by lopkeny12ko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VimDrill: A touch typing trainer for Vim (vimdrill.com)

×1.68 16 | 3 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fixing the traffic jam in the science of technology safety (citizensandtech.org)

×1.60 14 | 3 points by fanf2 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux on the Behringer X32 [video] (youtube.com)

×1.53 9 #85 | 38 points by birdman3131 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
418 I'm a teapot (mozilla.org)

×1.52 11 | 3 points by rglover 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bear Whose Head Was Stuck for Two Years Is Freed (nytimes.com)

×2.87 70 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harry Brearley, the creator of stainless steel (2016) (nautil.us)

×1.05 7 #24 | 69 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Data Center Company Uses Stranded Renewable Energy (insideclimatenews.org)

×1.49 8 | 3 points by rntn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FDA Clears First Blood Test Used in Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease (fda.gov)

×1.60 7 | 3 points by jader201 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FreeBSD Kernel Modules Pkg(8) Repositories (wordpress.com)

×1.90 71 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Triaging security issues reported by third parties (gnome.org)

×1.31 8 #23 | 15 points by zdw 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Tool to Summarize Kenya's Parliament with Rust, Whisper, and LLMs (github.com/c12i)

×1.64 6 #10 | 50 points by collinsmuriuki 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Talk About Writing in Tech (gmoniava.com)

×1.44 5 #18 | 15 points by gmoniava 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant? (popsci.com)

×2.14 7 #16 | 10 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube's new anti-adblock measures (iter.ca)

×6.13 2 #55 | 936 points by smitop 3 days ago | 1261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Failure Resume (medium.com)

×3.21 72 | 3 points by nyell 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA (smex.org)

×3.63 1 #45 | 800 points by the-anarchist 2 days ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era (bloomberg.com)

×2.62 1 #57 | 183 points by kjhughes 2 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Color Picker in Plain C (github.com/BlagojeBlagojevic)

×1.54 1 | 3 points by rbb1389 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lawrence Yun on the State of U.S. Housing Market (c-span.org)

×2.16 1 #17 | 6 points by mooreds 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???